Government Advisory Council Secretariat - Senior Advisor
Ruth Puente
Ruth’s experience over the last 17 years focuses on Internet Governance Policy (Internet Number Resources & Domain Names), Digital Identity Management, Standardization and Certification, Innovation Research & Development on Trust, Privacy, and Cybersecurity. She is skilled in Government Engagement, International Relations, Stakeholder Management, Leading Strategic Projects, and Executive Program Management.
She loves being part of the communities contributing to Internet development, promoting an open, safe, stable, human-centric Internet, and helping drive trust.
As Senior Advisor of the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee Secretariat, she helped advance the members on DNS public policy in light of the new gTLDs.
She led multistakeholder cooperation mechanisms with the governments and main Latin America and Caribbean stakeholders towards Internet development, contributing to a smooth transition to IPv6 (LACNIC and LACTLD). She also helped the Chilean Top Level Domain to implement the Registry/Registrar model. She worked at the United States Department of Homeland & Security and European Union Innovation Programs on Cybersecurity, Trust, and Privacy.
She has been helping communities in various jurisdictions to embrace trust and compliance with identity verification and privacy standards for the US NIST 800-63 (Kantara Initiative Inc.), UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework (Kantara Initiative Ltd), and Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (DIACC).
